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Phase ordering and roughening on growing films

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We study the interplay between surface roughening and phase separation during the growth of binary films. Already in 1+1 dimension, we find a variety of different scaling behaviors depending on how the two phenomena are coupled. In the most interesting case, related to the advection of a passive scalar in a velocity field, nontrivial scaling exponents are obtained in simulations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0002032,
  title  = {Phase ordering and roughening on growing films},
  author = {Barbara Drossel and Mehran Kardar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0002032},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages latex, 6 figures